“And I thought that you’d gotten it through your skull
What’s figurative and what’s literal
Oh but, just now, you said
You literally couldn’t get out of bed
That really makes me want to literally
Smack a crowbar upside your stupid head.” – Weird Al Yankovic

This week’s PREP is as follows;

Continue work on research task on your chosen language groups

Keep working on your glossary

Find out: what is a conjugate? why do we need to know our homophones? What is a dangling participle?

Check out these responses to ‘Word Crimes’ from proper linguists. They are well worth a look.

The information for the work I expect you to complete in my absence on Thursday is included in the lesson plans. I really do recommend that you attend school and spend the time completing these tasks in the Library. These tasks are being developed as in in class activity and should not add any extra work to your allotted PREP.

You will also find links to the story analyses, context resources and technique analyses in the ‘Litertaure links’ tab at the top of the page, so please check these out. Again, I really wanted to say how excited I was about the enthusiasm and directed energy of the discussions in class today. I also wanted to reiterate our focus of ‘being here, being engaged in learning’ for Literature in unit 4. At this stage of the year every class is critical. EDMOB out.

You should aim to do your best to be up to date with all of the previously set tasks and readings. These are listed below.

Pre-read section in textbook on comparing and contrasting texts (Chapter 3) and take some notes

Pre-read section on film (pages 60-66)

Pre-read section on genre (pages 9-15)

Continue work on personal reflection of Gatsby(s)

Complete memes task

Complete context research task and send me a link

View film

Read novel and take notes on each chapter

For the tasks, the instructions have been attached in the previous two posts under the Y11 Literature tag.

“Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan seem surprisingly perfect as Daisy and Gatsby. The short scene in which Daisy meets Gatsby on a rainy day had just enough venerability and awkwardness that it came across as genuine. (Side note: Mulligan’s dancing eyebrow is extremely entertaining. Watch for it about fifty-two seconds in.)” – BrennanMcCracken, inharshlight.com

“What have I ever done that was so wrong, other than believing in myself? If believing in yourself is so so so wrong, and the other side is so so so so strong in trying to beat down, and demonize and dishumanize and I don’t know if that’s a word or not, and if it’s not a word then I said it’s a (beeping) word.” – Kanye West, 2014

This week’s PREP is as follows;

Finish the piece of writing about whether you believe being able to just create new words is good or bad for the development of the English language.

Catch up with any overdue readings or tasks. (look at previous posts to see what they are)

Bring in a sample of ‘ye olde english’ that we can look at as a group.